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The 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series
People took the day off work on Sept. 28, 1972 to watch Canada play the Soviet Union. In the game's last seconds, their hero Paul Henderson scored an epoch-making goal. But the hockey series was more than just that final game. The fast and skilled Soviets surprisingly showed up Team Canada in eight gruelling games that changed Canadian hockey forever. It became faster, better. And the drama began in game one when Team Canada skated onto the ice self-admiring and mighty, only to be knocked down hard, 7-3, by the Soviet Union.
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Journalist Nick Auf der Maur says Montrealers are "up in arms" about c...
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The decision to bring back Hewitt to call the 1972 Summit Series spark...
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In game 1, Soviet skill and athleticism stuns Team Canada. Coach Harry...
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Playing fictitious reporter Leslie Lovelace, Max Ferguson presents a c...
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Team arrives to cheers after night of booing.
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With his best hangdog face, Phil Esposito scolds heckling Canadian fan...
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Canadian hockey fans arrive in the Soviet capital with their "Beat Rus...
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Max Ferguson satirizes news event.
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Team Canada owns the ice, for the first 2 ½ periods.
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Team Canada refuses to play game 8 unless the Soviets switch the refer...
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To celebrate her son's series-stealing goal, Evelyn Henderson, the mot...
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The prime minister, who is relieved and elated about this
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Fans who watched in Moscow had "great fun."
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Eagleson comments on "fantastic" series.
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Team Canada's interpreter shares a few interesting stories from his in...
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People took the day off work on Sept. 28, 1972 to watch Canada play th...
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The country's largest TV audience ever watches Paul Henderson score an...